"Immoral Doctrines" As a Plot. Two Women by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Authors

  • Guadalupe Correa Chiarotti Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Keywords:

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Two Women, Freedom of Choice

Abstract

This research analyzes the work Two Women by Cuban author Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Cuba, 1814- Spain, 1873), who proposes an ideal of love for women free from oppressive institutional mandates that curtail their freedom to choose and love. Undoubtedly, her position defends the right to free choice in love and divorce—although the term does not appear in the work—and gives lovers freedom of resolution and the power to resort to civil divorce when the situation so requires. Her proposal does not stem from an anarchic and radical stance, nor does it seek to undermine the foundations of romantic love, but rather seeks principles based on freedom of love and individual choice over submission to oppressive social, legal, and cultural entities. Her ideal of love and its aesthetic coherence pose new possibilities for women's action that are thematized in their vast complexity. Literature then serves this great writer so that in this work she warns about the calamities of marital servitude and becomes a stimulus and mirror that portrays multiple subjective alternatives for the feminine world.

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Published

01-07-2025

How to Cite

Correa Chiarotti, G. (2025). "Immoral Doctrines" As a Plot. Two Women by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. evista elibea, 19(1), 143–149. etrieved from https://revistas.apps.sid.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/melibea/article/view/9032

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